In the alternate universe where I am very honest, my résumé contains a line item
for the aggregate year I've spent fiddling with init.el. It does not,
however, list emacs lisp among the languages I know, because (in this alternate
universe) I have too much self respect to flaunt cut and paste skills.

In the present universe, this is going to be awkward, because I will have to present
really crappy elisp code without apology.

What this is about.

One of the things you get in an industrial strength IDE, in exchange for giving up your
favorite editor, is …